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FILE - In this Friday, March 16, 2012 file photo, filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry takes the stage to introduce President Barack Obama  during a fundraiser at Perry's film studio, in Atlanta. Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools

Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...

Female suicide bomber injures 12 in Russian region

A female suicide bomber identified as a widow of two killed Islamists blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday injuring at least 12, including two children and five police officers, police said. The bomber detonated an explosives-laden belt in the central square in the provincial ...

Fir Grove Elementary School fourth grader Brayden Corey, right, and grandmother Gayle Thomas of Roseburg, Ore.  share a moment at the grave of Jackie Thomas, Brayden's grandfather and Gayle's husband at the Roseburg National Cemetery, Friday, May 24, 2013. Jackie Thomas served in the Marine Corps and died in 2010.  Brayden Corey was at the cemetery to join classmates from Fir Grove Elementary School placing flags at headstones. (AP Photos/The News-Review, Michael Sullivan)

Obama says nation must do more for fallen heroes

President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fallen leave behind. He says the country must also make sure that all veterans ...

Riot police detain a protester who is trying to damage a poster during Ukraine's first gay pride demonstration in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25, 2013. About a hundred gay and lesbian Ukrainians and those from other countries took part in the gay pride rally, protected by hundreds of riot police. Antipathy toward homosexuals remains strong in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Dozens march in Ukraine's first-ever gay rally

At least 50 gay rights activists have marched peacefully in the country's first gay rally despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event. Participants of the Saturday's rally in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, held banners against discrimination and derogatory stereotypes of gays. Riot police guarded the rally and ...

'Friend' of suspect in UK slaying arrested

Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier. Abu Nusaybah was arrested following a BBC interview in which he said Adebolajo had changed after returning from a visit to Kenya where he claimed he had been ...

In Ethiopia, African Union celebrates 50 years

Dozens of African leaders are meeting in the Ethiopian capital to mark 50 years since the founding of the African Union, a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn opened the summit Saturday, also attended by foreign dignitaries including U.S. Secretary of State ...

Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital

A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the ...

Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict

Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "Good faith talks must get going," he said in Saturday remarks at the opening of a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea. ...

In this image from amateur video obtained by a group which calls itself Ugarit News, shows rebel fighters celebrating after purportedly capturing an army base in Nairab, northwestern Syria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The video is consistent with independent AP reporting. Rebel fighters captured an army base late Wednesday, a rare victory after a series of battlefield setbacks, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition group said. The group said scores of pro-regime troops and more than a dozen rebels were killed in the battle for the base, near the northwestern town of Nairab. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad unleashed on Saturday their heaviest artillery and rocket barrage in a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from a strategic western town, activists said. Pro-Assad troops, including fighters from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, have been trying to push rebels out of Qusair. They have ...

Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital

Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the city. Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda organized the "We Believe in Balloons" day. He says each balloon ...

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